EducationWe've been to school. We know how education works. Right? In fact, many aspects of learning — in homes, at schools, at work and elsewhere — are evolving rapidly, along with our understanding of learning. Join us as we explore how learning happens.

A new Florida state law allows parents, and any residents, to challenge the use of textbooks and instructional materials they find objectionable via an independent hearing.
Gulfiya Mukhamatdinova/Getty Images
hide caption

Nationwide, Teachers Supplement School Supplies With Their Salaries

Malala cuts a birthday cake in the shape of a book at a restaurant in Dohuk. The youngest Nobel laureate turned 20 on July 12 in Dohuk, five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan.
Jane Arraf/NPR
hide caption

College Tuition Grows At Slowest Pace In Decades

"Restorative justice" is gaining popularity as a way to handle campus sexual assault cases. The approach is a therapeutic intervention aimed at healing, rather than a trial to decide guilt and punishment.
Stuart Kinlough/Ikon Images/Getty Images
hide caption

Meet The 5 New Inductees Of The National Teachers Hall Of Fame

Pat Wilkins didn't plan to live in Ghana. But the former New Yorker is now so much a part of the society that, as one Ghanaian puts it, "We don't even see her as an American. She is family to us."
Amy Yee for NPR
hide caption